Let's face it folks: tuition costs are too high. The scholarship-searching frenzy is a phenomenon experienced in all high schools, and still college students are ending up with heavy bills for their parents, and loans that they won't pay off until after they've started paying for their own child's college housing and tuition. And the worst part is, the cost of higher education is rising.
It's a well-known fact that the federal government spends too much money trying to fix this issue. This an economy of capitalism, and upper-class Americans should be able to proudly say, "if your child isn't as privileged as mine, it's because God made him that way." Why should they have to pay for lesser Americans to compete? To continue to tax the nation or focus federal funds on higher education is a ridiculous idea--then we'd be no different from the liberal Canadians--pray tell, what kind of America would that be?
The struggle lies in the assumption that college is for everyone, and that it is the only road to a paying job. I say this doesn't have to be true. Surely we can't create any more Walmarts, but what we can do is create other jobs for Americans that don't require higher education. Factory work in America is done mostly by robots which require electricity and promote pollution-- or it's done by the Chinese, who secretly poison our baby formula so that we can't raise intelligent children. So what I propose is that we travel back to America's glory days, when the factory work was done by real people, and revert our factories back to manpower (and women and children power--we are a country of equality after all). These kinds of factories were outlawed ages ago because there were some poor conditions, but if you're an American you know that no pain means no gain.
I say if we let up on government regulations of manufacturing facilities (we aren't Communists yet, are we?) we can return to a more rustic America, and swing open the doors of destiny to our younger, poorer and less talented Americans and let them breathe the bittersweet scent of leather, sweat, and hard work that will shape them into a much more subdued and useful class of our society. Too many people today have an incentive to apply to college. If only we would provide an alternative for the less privileged, the most distinguished students would go to school and become rich and be able to pay for their children's education. Meanwhile, our goods would be made on American soil, and pollution would be cut down. The formula given to our rich babies would be lead-free and would nourish more intelligent privileged children, and as for pollution-- the exhaustion would not come from oil-guzzling factories, but from less intelligent Americans learning the value of hard work and serving their country by enduring terrible conditions.
(In a favorable situation, the conditions would be good, but this would cost too much money and the wages would have to be lowered; and besides, these conditions would stimulate integrity and would make these annoyingly displaced scholarship competitors into veterans of a sort-- when we buy their American-made boots we would finally have something to thank them for.)
To abandon modern manufacturing and return to a system of American manpower would lower pollution, nourish healthy children, and create a less competitive and therefore a less costly educational environment, not to mention it would bring value and appreciation to the less fortunate members of society. In fewer words, it would be one step closer to a perfect America.
It's a well-known fact that the federal government spends too much money trying to fix this issue. This an economy of capitalism, and upper-class Americans should be able to proudly say, "if your child isn't as privileged as mine, it's because God made him that way." Why should they have to pay for lesser Americans to compete? To continue to tax the nation or focus federal funds on higher education is a ridiculous idea--then we'd be no different from the liberal Canadians--pray tell, what kind of America would that be?
The struggle lies in the assumption that college is for everyone, and that it is the only road to a paying job. I say this doesn't have to be true. Surely we can't create any more Walmarts, but what we can do is create other jobs for Americans that don't require higher education. Factory work in America is done mostly by robots which require electricity and promote pollution-- or it's done by the Chinese, who secretly poison our baby formula so that we can't raise intelligent children. So what I propose is that we travel back to America's glory days, when the factory work was done by real people, and revert our factories back to manpower (and women and children power--we are a country of equality after all). These kinds of factories were outlawed ages ago because there were some poor conditions, but if you're an American you know that no pain means no gain.
I say if we let up on government regulations of manufacturing facilities (we aren't Communists yet, are we?) we can return to a more rustic America, and swing open the doors of destiny to our younger, poorer and less talented Americans and let them breathe the bittersweet scent of leather, sweat, and hard work that will shape them into a much more subdued and useful class of our society. Too many people today have an incentive to apply to college. If only we would provide an alternative for the less privileged, the most distinguished students would go to school and become rich and be able to pay for their children's education. Meanwhile, our goods would be made on American soil, and pollution would be cut down. The formula given to our rich babies would be lead-free and would nourish more intelligent privileged children, and as for pollution-- the exhaustion would not come from oil-guzzling factories, but from less intelligent Americans learning the value of hard work and serving their country by enduring terrible conditions.
(In a favorable situation, the conditions would be good, but this would cost too much money and the wages would have to be lowered; and besides, these conditions would stimulate integrity and would make these annoyingly displaced scholarship competitors into veterans of a sort-- when we buy their American-made boots we would finally have something to thank them for.)
To abandon modern manufacturing and return to a system of American manpower would lower pollution, nourish healthy children, and create a less competitive and therefore a less costly educational environment, not to mention it would bring value and appreciation to the less fortunate members of society. In fewer words, it would be one step closer to a perfect America.
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